Professor Catriona Sandilands
IAS Summit: Queer Ecology and The Supernatural
York University, Canada
Catriona (Cate) Sandilands is a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her writing on feminism, queer ecologies, ecocriticism, multispecies biopolitics, and public humanities includes nearly 100 shorter works in addition to the edited, multi-genre collection Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times (Caitlin Press, 2019), the landmark co-edited anthology Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (Indiana University Press, 2010, with Bruce Erickson), and the monograph that started it all, The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 1999). She is at work on a hybrid essay collection about vegetal biopolitics titled Plantasmagoria.
Cate has also veered significantly into literary fiction and poetry and recently completed an MFA in creative writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is putting the final touches on a collection of short stories titled Dear Jane Rule, which responds to the life and writing of the Canadian lesbian, literary icon through an extensive epistolary engagement with her archive at the University of British Columbia.
Some of Cate’s recent writing on queer ecology appears in Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene; Ecologies of Gender: Contemporary Nature Relations and the Nonhuman Turn; Sex Ecologies; The Journal of Lesbian Studies; Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture; Environmental Humanities; and Zoetropisms: Ecofeminist Stories of Becoming.
During their IAS Fellowship Professor Sandilands will be collaborating with Dr Carina Brand from the School of Design and Creative Arts.